Carol and I have been doing as little as possible over this holiday weekend. We talked about driving somewhere, but driving is always a nightmare on Labor Day weekend. So, we’ve been sleeping late and doing some desultory housecleaning. And I took a couple of walks at nearby conservation areas.
On Friday, I went to Black Pond Bog, a Nature Conservancy property in Norwell.
![A small bee on a flower.](https://www.danielharper.org/yauu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/IMG_0221-1024x768.jpeg)
On Saturday, I took a long walk in Wompatuck State Park. The park covers about 3,500 acres, and you can spend all day walking its miles of trails. It’s mostly wooded, but there are also a number of ponds.
![A pond surrounded by woods at dusk.](https://www.danielharper.org/yauu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Heron-Pond-Wompatuck-State-Park-769x1024.jpeg)
Getting to Black Pond Bog and Wompatuck State Park both required a fifteen minute drive.
Today, neither Carol nor I felt like driving even that far. So we walked down Main Street from our apartment to Wheelwright Park, and from there into Wright Woods.
![A fuzzy seed head of a grass plant nods in the breeze.](https://www.danielharper.org/yauu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/IMG_0449-768x1024.jpeg)
![A bright red flower blooms in a pond at the base of a rock face.](https://www.danielharper.org/yauu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/IMG_0453-768x1024.jpeg)
We’re extraordinarily lucky to live in a place where we don’t have to drive long distances to find something to see and do on Labor Day weekend.